The Importance of Micro Nutrients

“Micro nutrients are to agriculture as vitamins are to the human diet” – Braun

Micro refers to the quantity of a nutrient required by a plant, not that it’s less important for a healthy growth cycle.

The micro nutrients used by PowerRich are in a class by themselves!

They are classified as ”complexed” or “sequestered.” Like chelates they have the ability to “hold” metal ions in such a way as to protect them from being tied up by the soil particles and converted into an insoluble form, rendering them unusable by the plant.

This means that the micro nutrients used by PowerRich move both laterally and vertically with soil moisture becoming equally distributed throughout the root zone. Natural sources of micro nutrients depend on root interception, or the root finding the nutrient source once “tie up” has occurred.

This is critical since roots come in contact with as little as 1-2% of soil surface area

Because our granular macro and micro nutrients used by PowerRich remain available longer, extending uptake to the plant, far less fertilizer is required to correct nutrient deficiencies. The plant has what it needs, when it needs it!

The micro nutrients used by PowerRich also have other benefits such as:

Improved uptake and transport of N,P, and K along with secondary and micro elements

Act as a buffering material in alkaline soils allowing for improved plant uptake

As growth in all phases is dependent on micro nutrients we must be aware of their balances in the soil and their availability to the plant Without these micro elements being taken up by the plant in proper amounts and balance, yields will be limited

Among other properties, here is how micro nutrients affect plant growth:

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Iron

needed for the formation of chlorophyll

activates enzymes and the movementof regulators and chargedelectrons

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Boron

regulates the metabolism of carbohydrates

makes starch

adds in quality of seed and fruit development

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Copper

activator of several enzymes and a basic energy changing roll in the production of amino acids

need to turn nitrogen into protein

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Manganese

known as the element of life

makes it possible for every living thing to reproduce itself

assist iron as an activator of enzyme growth

needed to produce seed

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Molybdenum

enables plant to utilize nitrogen

helps produce ammonia in plants

regulates sugar content

produces liacin- an energy carrier

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Zinc

growth activator

key that activates the enzyme system for the production of auxin (growth regulator)

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